Empower Edupower

Jay Hind If you aren’t spending much time on family or spiritual life or health maintenance, for example, then maybe these aren’t really the most important things in your life. Could you be wrong about your own priorities? Well, sure. In the incredibly complex interactions of conscious mind, subcon- scious motive, and psyche, we’re perfectly capable of masking our true motivations from ourselves even as we might seek to hide them from or misrepresent them to others. Also, the process of writing a list of priorities is different from the process of living your life. Your list could reflect the things you think of when asked to make a list, just as the opinion you give to a pollster might represent the opinion you would have if you had an opinion. You might have listed the elements you think you’re supposed to list, the elements it’s acceptable or right to value most highly. You really wanted to list “making a pot of money” as your num- ber-one priority, but somehow you just did...